An Orange Prize Finalist A Man Booker Prize Nominee Winner of the 2009 Betty Trask Prize A Guardian First Book Award Nominee Jake is in the tailspin of old age. His wife has passed away, his son is in prison, and now he is about to lose his past to Alzheimer’s. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake’s memories become increasingly unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is...(展开全部)

萨曼莎•哈维1975年出生于英国。曾旅居爱尔兰、新西兰与日本，从事写作与教学工作。现居英国巴斯，除了文学创作，还参与环保慈善事业。 《荒野》是作者的第一本长篇小说。本书甫一出版就受到了广泛关注，成为2008年伦敦书展重点书，继而成为2009橘子文学奖决赛入围作品，2009年布克奖初赛入围作品，并获得了贝蒂特拉斯克处女作文学奖。书评家将她誉为21世纪的“弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫”。《哈泼时尚》杂志将作者评选为2009年最值得关注的三位女性之一，她也是该杂志邀请专访并将其照片作为春季版特刊的唯一一位作家。

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.

In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age.By superimposing the past on the present, Atwood paints interior landscapes shaped by time, regret, and lif...(展开全部)

The Singing Wilderness is Sigurd Olson's first and best-selling book, with over 70,000 copies sold in hardcover since its release in 1956. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume established Olson as a major writer renowned for the beauty of his prose and the clarity of his vision."The singing wilderness has to do with the calling of the loons, northern light...(展开全部)

This is probably the first large-scale photographic essay dedicated to the Asian continent's natural wonders. The 44 regions this handsome volume explores-some famous, some almost unknown, all extensively narrated and gorgeously illustrated-are Asia's calling card; it is a continent that still preserves huge expanse of pristine nature and amazing biodiversity hotspots. Their s...(展开全部)

《西藏生灵》主要内容：一片广袤的僻壤，狂风激荡的原野，贫瘠的荒地上冰峰高耸，这就是藏北羌塘。尽管其南部边境是游牧民族的家园，但这里的大部分地域属于那些成群结队，却已非常稀有的野生动物，如野牦牛与藏羚羊。没有多少人看到过它们，更罕有人研究过这些生灵。

At the heart of this astonishing novel is a true story of courage and endurance in the face of one of the most brutal civil wars the world has ever known. Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safet...(展开全部)

今天要介紹的是他最新的一本書"What Is the What". 要談這本書呢得從頭開始說.80年代初期在蘇丹這塊土地上,佔多數及擁有政府優勢的阿拉伯裔,與位居南方主要為非洲裔的反抗軍開始了蘇丹的第二次內戰.政府軍在絕對優勢下迫使許多並未與反抗軍結盟,卻只因種族相同被一視同仁的普通居民開始逃難生活.這其中有一群小孩子,年齡大部分都在15歲以下,幾乎都是孤兒,獨自的穿越沙漠,途中經歷兇猛動物和政府軍的追殺,逃到了衣索比亞.這群孩子後來被國際間稱為"The Lost Boys of Sudan".書的主角Valentino Achak Deng就是Lost Boys的其中一員,在後來國際人道救援中,他被送到了美國.原本以為就此平靜的生活卻又因為自己非洲人的身分,又起了波折. 基本上這本書是以Achak這個人口述經歷,撰寫的一本書.故事一開始已經在美國亞...(展开全部)

"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the hea...(展开全部)